What is this little gremlin ๐ eating my tomato plant? #growwnostr #asknostr

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that's a future flutter by
I donโt wanna kill him
Tobacco horn worm. They eat tomatoes because they're related. (They even have trace amounts of nicotine in them.) They will decimate a crop. My chickens think they're delicious.
Baby Sphinx Moth :) (aka tomato hornworm)
Thanks, little chunky fella
I love our sphinx moths here (we have vashti and bumblebee clearwing), they are beautiful, and pollinators.
I wonder if there's a "weed" one could transfer the caterpillars to, to save the tomatoes and the moth?
Iโm going to keep him as a pet for the time being, although Iโll probably let him go before too long


